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+# Lenovo Sandy Bridge series
+
+## Flashing coreboot
+```eval_rst
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Type | Value |
++=====================+====================+
+| Socketed flash | no |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Size | 8 MiB |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| In circuit flashing | Yes |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Package | SOIC-8 |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Write protection | No |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Dual BIOS feature | No |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+| Internal flashing | Yes |
++---------------------+--------------------+
+```
+
+## Installation instructions
+* Update the EC firmware, as there's no support for EC updates in coreboot.
+* Do **NOT** accidently swap pins or power on the board while a SPI flasher
+ is connected. It will destroy your device.
+* It's recommended to only flash the BIOS region. In that case you don't
+ need to extract BLOBs from vendor firmware.
+ If you want to flash the whole chip, you need BLOBs when building
+ coreboot.
+* The shipped *Flash layout* allocates 3MiB to the BIOS region, which is the space
+ usable by coreboot.
+* ROM chip size should be set to 8MiB.
+
+```eval_rst
+Please also have a look at :doc:`../../flash_tutorial/index`.
+```
+
+## Flash layout
+There's one 8MiB flash which contains IFD, GBE, ME and BIOS regions.
+On Lenovo's UEFI the EC firmware update is placed at the start of the BIOS
+region. The update is then written into the EC once.
+
+![][fl]
+
+[fl]: flashlayout_xx20.svg
+